Motorsport Games Entire Board Of Directors Have Resigned

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The Motorsport Games Odyssey keeps on continuing. And it keeps on getting weirder. In the latest stroke of madness, the entire board of directors resigned due to a "proposal to raise additional capital".

As if the story of Motorsport Games couldn't get any more complicated and convoluted, today's news seems to top everything off.

As the American company tries to find a way to raise more capital, its parent company Motorsport Network seems to have made such an outrageous proposal that the entire board of directors have resigned.

But first, a little lesson in company structure and stocks:

What is a Board of Directors?​

A board of directors (B of D) is the governing body of a company, elected by shareholders in the case of public companies to set strategy and oversee management. The board typically meets at regular intervals. Every public company must have a board of directors. - Investopedia
So a few key facts are:
  • The board of directors of a public company is elected by shareholders.
  • The board makes key decisions on issues such as mergers and dividends, hires senior managers, and sets their pay.
  • Board of directors candidates can be nominated by the company's nominations committee or by outsiders seeking change.
  • The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq require listed companies to have a majority of outside, or independent, directors on their board.
Now the last of these points might prove troublesome for the company yet, as the current Board of Directors, which seems to be made up of 1 person appointed by Motorsport Network, is no longer NASDAQ compliant.

This means that, should no solution be found in the near future, Motorsport Games could be delisted from NASDAQ.

Why being delisted is bad.​

If a company has been delisted, it is no longer trading on a major exchange, but the stockholders are not stripped of their status as owners. The stock still exists, and they still own the shares; however, delisting often results in a significant or total devaluing of a company's share value.

Therefore, although a shareholder's ownership of a company does not decrease after a company is delisted, that ownership may become worth much less, or, in some cases, it may lose its entire value.

As a shareholder, you should seriously revisit your investment decision in a company that has become delisted. In many cases, it may be better to cut your losses. A firm unable to meet the listing requirements of the exchange upon which it is traded is quite obviously not in a great position. - Investopedia

So, basically, if a company is delisted from NASDAQ, the stock value tends to drop dramatically. Meaning some investors or shareholders might think sooner rather than later to "get off the sinking ship".

So to keep a TL;DR of everything: This is pretty bad.

After saving themselves from delisting with a 1-to-10 stock split, they are now at risk again.

At this point, what do you think of this odyssey that Motorsport Games is going through? Is the company saveable? And how do you think will rFactor 2 be affected? Let us know in the comments down below!
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What is all this fuzz about motorsportgames? Isn't the company in the orbit of the much bigger Motorsport Network (that probably is worth some $$$ billion)? :cool:
In any case, if it will be delisted, both the company and the companies acquired by it during these years will keep existing. There are several ways to avoid damage and also make profit from this situation.
I'm not an expert, but the same goes for Ogonovski. He's not Gordon Gekko, he writes what he reads on the internet, so take it easy guys.

Dell was delisted in 2013. At the time was worth it 56.6 B, now its value is 101 B.
And B don't stay for Burgers.

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A dead horse is looking for Investors :D
 
Wait.. Was not all this a conspiracy from Austin's mind??? hahahahaha :laugh::laugh:

Also, today they will release their Q3 results and with everyone jumping from the ship, I barely can imagine the type of money loss would not be on this.
 
Imagine if people stopped falling for Ian Bell's PR speak. I do. But, dreams doesn't come true.
You know what? I gave Ian my money once to pursue a dream and not only did I get my 2nd most played Steam game (probably #1 if you include pre-Steam launcher days), but I also made a decent return on my investment. Same can't be said for MSG or EA investors.

If Ian wants to swoop in and score some distressed assets and key personnel, I 'd consider investing.

(This excludes Simbin's pre-PCars contributions to the community, which maybe should not be discounted.)
 
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You know what? I gave Ian my money once to pursue a dream and not only did I get my 2nd most played Steam game (probably #1 if you include pre-Steam launcher days), but I also made a decent return on my investment. Same can't be said for MSG or EA investors.

If Ian wants to swoop in and score some distressed assets and key personnel, I 'd consider investing.

(This excludes Simbin's pre-PCars contributions to the community, which maybe should not be discounted.)

Commercially it was good. But then again, the idea behind the buy in, and people wanting a return on their investment was genius.
Also great that you really liked the game!

But then again, my post was about him and PR. He knows how to talk up things.
 
But then again, my post was about him and PR. He knows how to talk up things.

Fair enough. But in our hobby, how many guys swoop in with no cred and fantastic screenshots and end up delivering little to nothing to the community. I think Ian has delivered enough to get the benefit of the doubt. (relatively) Which is why I am skeptical of Rennsport, frankly.

And I guess my PCars profits have to be offset with those SimRaceway credits I bought... So lots of experience here on both sides.
 
I think people need to hold their horses a bit and relax. Anybody remembers what happened to Simbin and their Raceroom game? Or to Papyrus? A name change of the company, a new investor and they are still around to this day. And if anyone saw something valuable in those games at that time, it's pretty safe to say that rF2 and the people developing it will have a future, one way or another. And even if it stops being developed, I am pretty sure it will stick around on peoples hard drives and people will go nuts with modding it. The developers will find a place somewhere else easily, as sim devs are hard to find these days. rF2 is in a very solid state now, alot more fleshed out than rF1 ever was and we all know when the prime time of that sim started.
GTR3 is pretty much rensport lol
 
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Fair enough. But in our hobby, how many guys swoop in with no cred and fantastic screenshots and end up delivering little to nothing to the community. I think Ian has delivered enough to get the benefit of the doubt. (relatively) Which is why I am skeptical of Rennsport, frankly.

And I guess my PCars profits have to be offset with those SimRaceway credits I bought... So lots of experience here on both sides.

Oh we agree on Rennsport, and I kept away from SimRaceway, something about GTR3 in there as well :p

In hindsight, economicall I shouldn't waited for an answer that I never got from SMS regarding pCars investment. I did believe that it would be an economical success, and had a couple of thousand (USD/EUR/GBP) that I wanted to chip in. Should've done it, but these things happens. Can't nail everything.

The SimBin games were awesome, but the Shift, Test Drive not so. And pCars 1 & 2 never lived for that long, especially online.
pCars 2 was awesome on VR, with DD-wheel and full motion rig.

Oh well. I don't trust Ian Bell, and I think most is to hype up/part of PR. However, he is really good at just that.

The Slightly Mad Console never arrived though.
 
I wish I shared your optimism. I see no reason why WEC suddenly will get their game now, when they didn't back when WEC was a lot more popular.
No Indy/IMSA game either.

Personally I want a proper WEC-game, IndyCar-game, NASCAR-game and BTCC-game. Not just cars included in other games to drive :/
In a perfect world, I'd like that too. But in reality, these all are categories that appeal to a small market, except maybe NASCAR. The big money is more in simcades like Gran Turismo or Forza. Our best bet is to see series like WEC or BTCC included in "Swiss Army Knife" sims like AMS2, R3E or the upcoming AC2. That's why I hope that the discussions between Reiza and Indycar will eventually bring officially licensed Indycar tracks and cars in AMS2.

If I get a nice discount on the BTCC cars and tracks DLCs, I might even reinstall rFactor2 on my PC. Unless rFactor2 is swept away in the MG debacle...
 
Some disgruntled CEO's at MSG and EA apparently were ejected from iRacing rookie classes and reeally got mad at everyone else with just basic driving skills in the playpen.
And now seems to turn into full focus on x-platform arcadery for the kindergarten.

Reiza, it's up for grabs - we, dedicated simracers, trust in you :)
 
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If you get delisted from the Nasdaq, or from another market, you don't disappear. If you think that isn't worth a cent, why don't you go and buy it then? See if the S397 value moved from the 16 millions paid for its acquisition to 16 dollars.
Things are more complex than what you think and only the time will tell us what will happen.
If you are a company that generates 1.5M and spends 7.5M a year and you are at the third owner and with no cash in the wallet you are unlikely to find investors. And even if they come they are likely to go down the same path... That's why bankruptcy happens.
 
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It seems iRacing has ventured into the motorsport production studio business. I hope it would be them that end up buying what is left of all this.
I know people don't like the business model of iRacing but at least they don't sign shady exclusivity deals like MSG and EA. The absolute worst scenario is a company like EA getting their hands on s397 IP, the WEC, Le Mans, & WTCC licenses. People know what will happen to the s397 guys if EA buy them. It's almost certain rF2 development will be cancelled and the team integrated into the Need for Speed franchise.
 
Wait.. Was not all this a conspiracy from Austin's mind??? hahahahaha :laugh::laugh:

Also, today they will release their Q3 results and with everyone jumping from the ship, I barely can imagine the type of money loss would not be on this.
Not much of a conspiracy here. What appears to have been an MSGM employee contacted me in January and fed me all of this information under a burner Twitter account. It was extremely thorough.

Glassdoor reviews have painted a pretty wild picture and there are some interesting nuggets over there.

In hindsight all of this stuff was easily searchable online which is why I say it's insane that due diligence was never done with these MSGM guys.

The ride I think is just beginning. I've been told a couple of really insane stories:
  • This may scare off certain brands or sanctioning bodies from sim racing altogether, as MSGM has taken them for that badly of a ride.
  • The feds are looking into Dmitry, and my videos may or may not have helped them with the investigation.
There is a reason the entire board of advisors resigned. They have seen something so incomprehensibly bad that the only move is to abandon ship, all at once.

iRacing are the smartest people in the room right now, positioning themselves as a publisher and acquiring Monster Games. It's likely once MSGM implodes, iRacing will snatch up the NASCAR console gaming license and release a modern reboot of Dirt to Daytona.
 
Don't worry, I always knew the company was weird and watched all of your videos. I was just being ironic with all the deniers here at the RaceDepartment who claimed the videos to be "conspiracy theories".

And since nothing wrong is happening with the company, today they again postponed their financial release until Friday, which is the second time they do it for this quarter release, of course, is not a sign that things are looking bad. (irony).

My guess is that this balance sheet will show to even the most skeptical that the company is completely broke, something that the directors already knew and that's why they left.
 
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